Dedicated to the memory of Vitali Liskevich
MSC:primary 35B40 secondary 35B09, 35B53, 35J92We study the behavior of positive solutions of p-Laplacian type elliptic equations of the formWe obtain removable singularity theorems for positive solutions near ζ . In particular, using a new three-spheres theorems for certain solutions of the above equation near ζ we prove that if V belongs to a certain Kato class near ζ and p > d (respectively, p < d), then any positive solution u of the equation Q (u) = 0 in a punctured neighborhood of ζ = 0 (respectively, ζ = ∞) is in fact continuous at ζ . Under further assumptions we find the asymptotic behavior of u near ζ .